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Word of Mouth: What We Talk About When We Talk About Food
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
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Description for Word of Mouth: What We Talk About When We Talk About Food
Hardback. Captures the language that explains culinary practices. To prove its case, this book draws on a range of cultural documents from interviews, cookbooks, and novels to comic strips, essays, and films. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFCV; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 202 x 24. Weight in Grams: 484.
Today, more than ever, talking about food improves the eating of it. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson argues that conversation can even trump consumption. Where many works look at the production, preparation, and consumption of food, Word of Mouth captures the language that explains culinary practices. Explanation is more than an elaboration here: how we talk about food says a great deal about the world around us and our place in it. What does it mean, Ferguson asks, to cook and consume in a globalized culinary world subject to vertiginous change? Answers to this question demand a mastery of food talk in ... Read more
Today, more than ever, talking about food improves the eating of it. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson argues that conversation can even trump consumption. Where many works look at the production, preparation, and consumption of food, Word of Mouth captures the language that explains culinary practices. Explanation is more than an elaboration here: how we talk about food says a great deal about the world around us and our place in it. What does it mean, Ferguson asks, to cook and consume in a globalized culinary world subject to vertiginous change? Answers to this question demand a mastery of food talk in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Series
California Studies in Food and Culture
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520273924
SKU
V9780520273924
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About Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. After publishing on French literary identity in Literary France: The Making of a Culture, she studied the urban culture of Paris in Paris as Revolution: Reading the Nineteenth-Century City. Her work on cuisine and food started with Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine and has ... Read more
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"Ferguson provides interesting insights on a range of people, topics, and social trends."
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